Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020
So, let's say I'm a little paranoid about radon, so I test my house for radon, but I don't have any. No matter how often I test, we're not finding it. More tests wouldn't change that. You find radon if it's there. We're finding more cases because the cases are there. The only reason I can think of for his continuing to repeat something this dumb is...he really did slow down the testing because it made him look bad and is now trying to justify it by saying it was actually a good thing.
He doesn't take any responsibility. It seems like it's because he doesn't see the actual fact of the number of cases and deaths as the problem, so much as the perception they create.
I guess it is conceivable that some people are that stupid though. I mean, let's say I didn't have WMD's in my house, but my neighbors kept looking for them...
UPDATE: Oh. Shit.
Just now I asked the President if he was kidding when he said he told his people to slow down testing, which is how White House officials explained the comment.
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) June 23, 2020
He said, “I don’t kid.”
He also said again testing is a double-edged sword, and praised the job the U.S. has done.
2 comments:
The answer is BOTH! Really.
He's not Hannibal Lector (Lector is smart), but they're both psychopaths.
The Psychopath in Chief
https://medium.com/@tony_schwartz/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9
https://medium.com/@vgwcct/a-duty-to-differentially-diagnose-the-validity-underpinning-the-diagnosis-of-the-president-371354142a02
I think that makes sense--many psychopaths can at least think about how other people react to things, even if they lack empathy, in order to be better manipulators. But Trump not only lacks empathy but imagination--his manipulation is usually the blunt force approach.
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